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BJH writes "A Japanese company by the unfortunate name of tmsuk has just announced the world's largest robot capable of carrying a person - the 3.5m tall, 5 ton T52 Enryu HyperRescueRobot.
Their product site is in Japanese, but here's a few fun facts: it's 10m wide with its arms fully outstretched, is powered by an onboard water-cooled three cylinder direct injection diesel engine, has a maximum speed of 3Km/h, and carries seven 680,000-pixel CCD cameras with a separate monitor for each camera.
If no whiny 14-year-olds are available to pilot it, it can be remotely controlled (with a dummy plug in the cockpit, presumably)."
But when can I get my fuckin gundam???
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." G.W.Bush
So are we ready to fight the sentinels yet?
Get Signorey Weaver and bring on the Alien mother.
Those who can do. Those who can't sue.
I need to know how to say in Japanese, how much, and do you finance...
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C'mon, this joke's got legs!
Looks like the perfect thing to babysit kids with or fight mother aliens.
Scratch that, the kids'll break it.
Don't be fooled. That photo is of a 1 meter tall man standing beside Steve Mann
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now all it needs is a rubber penis!!!
Isn't this similarity striking?
The machines would sell like hot cakes if they would advertise with Ripley...
Hey, is that whiny wannabe-soldier included in the price? I need someone to reload my gatling gun... :)
Someone better sell this technology to Suzuki. Despite the fact Suzuki cars are horrible now, even I would be interested in one if they make some REAL Transformers! * que Transformer main theme *
Hate me!
...over compensating for something.
SIGERR: laziness exceeds quota
Wow the "T-52 support dragon" weighs in at 5 tons. If it does not find somebody on the first pass then their will be no need for the second as it will crush them into oblivion.
babelfish translation
...948 models later and it's Judgment Day!
(Giant grippers crushing one of the few remaining
human rebels):
Please...stop..."rescuing"...me! Aaaaarrggghh!!!
Is it just me or does this thing come with a snow-plow?
It is a combination Snowplow and Proctologist.
The Dr. will see you now.
Random Japanese Person 1: Aaaaaagh! The evil robots are coming!
Random Japanese Person 2: It certainly does seem as if this is the end. They are only six kilometers from here!
Time Passes
Random Japanese Person 1: This is boring. Perhaps we should go to them.
Random Japanese Person 2: My grandma could outrun these fucking evil robots. What a bunch of losers.
More Time Passes
Random Japanese Person 1: Do you realize we could have watched "Amelie" by now?
Random Japanese Person 2: Yes, perhaps the evil robots are not ready for prime-time yet.
Still More Time Passes
Random Japanese Person 1: Well, I'm tired of waiting. I'm going to hop a bullet train for Kyoto and catch a baseball game.
Random Japanese Person 2: I'm in. Those robots are still over a kilometer from here, and it looks like some kid just took one out with a "Red Ryder" BB gun.
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We need one that can snatch aeroplanes out of the air as they dive towards huge skyscrapers, filled to the brim with wailing passengers.
If no whiny 14-year-olds are available to pilot it,
Sure there are. Finding some that can pilot and are clinically insane, however, may take time.
The coolest voice ever.
No, it's Zion. (Because if my enemy's favorite weapon was pinchy tentacles, I know I'd design an open-air cockpit into my main line of defense...)
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But would you want that thing turning up to resuce you in an earthquake.
As if the experience of being burried under a pile of rubble wasn't enough, you then get a giant robot with metal pinchers turning up... I'd have a heart attack before it had time to pull me out.
That thing is a weapon of mass produced destruction!
This is my sig.
You realise that this marks the birth of the Genom Corporation? Quick, better set up the first AD Police unit!
You must think in Russian.
What specifically makes this a "Hyper" robot?
Did it drink too much coffee? Put too much sugar on its cereal? Does it have ADD and is a total spaz?
Marketing dorks.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER!
I just wasted your mod points! HA!
and maybe English will come out.
Donate background CPU time to fight cancer.
Crikey, man, no joke. I looked at that thing and thought it'd be a killer way to move stacks of planks and whatnot out on the jobsite - not to mention something very strong to "hold this up here just like that for a minute." As much of a Robotech geek as I might have been (or thought I was) back when I was a teenager, when I grew up I started to think of technology for useful purposes, not destructive ones. Maybe that's the problem with the current crop of warmongers - they never grew up. I'd put my money on that one, in fact.
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